Every year it seems that more people are added to The List of people who qualify! Qualify for what? Medical products! Of the $1.53 trillion market share of the pharmaceutical industry, the U.S. takes the lead. Once upon a time, two main categories were always excluded: pregnancy and sick people. For evidence of such a [...]
Who has time to protest when you have to have a job to make ends meet? What if you are paid to protest? Suddenly protesting is a career choice! The World is a Stage How much do crisis actors get paid to go where the crisis is? According to ZipRecruiter, it works out to be [...]
What is the fastest way to shut down critical thinking and end conversations? Utter the phrase common knowledge. Used in a sentence: it's common knowledge that there are two types of people in the world, "essential and nonessential." Repeated often enough, designer phraseology hypnotizes the mind until accepted as fact, without question or verification (i.e., [...]
From newly proposed laws to major astrological changes, humanity is in for some challenging adjustments beginning in 2025. In the Wisconsin legislature, a new 2025 democratic bill proposes to replace the term, "mother" with "inseminated person," and "paternity" with "parentage." No, this is not the latest Monty Python film, but it is being called a [...]
Eyes fixed downwards, we turn our backs towards the sea, as cloyingly the fog begins to rise. Envelopes of tainted vapours that spread their tendrils between the weakened chains, until every lungful is laced with silver. — Sam Illingworth, Traces in the Fog, 2019 Traces in the Fog The poem, Traces in the Fog was [...]
